crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.

Haral Tsitsivas haral at ttidcb.UUCP
Wed Oct 23 11:55:18 AEST 1985


In article <187 at l5.uucp> gnu at l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Shore at adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore) wrote:
>> By the way, the man page for cron(8) lies.  It says that the
>> days are numbered 1-7 with 1=Monday.  The days are actually
>> numbered 0-6 with 0=Sunday.
>
>I tried it on my Sun and he is incorrect.  On a Sunday, I added two
>entries, one for day 7 and one for day 0, at the same time (a few minutes
>hence).  The one with day 7 ran, with day 0 didn't.  QED.

Sunday is 0 on my system (still 4.1 BSD, sigh).



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